tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225795457407230638.post1658129729024080395..comments2024-03-28T07:36:19.697+00:00Comments on Excuse Me Whilst I Step Outside: Virtues of a Social Democratic State Re-Discovered...CharlieMcMenaminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00942021756417667913noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225795457407230638.post-58219865344723786462009-04-17T17:15:00.000+01:002009-04-17T17:15:00.000+01:001983 Manifestos? That reminds me..http://virtualst...1983 Manifestos? That reminds me..<A>http://virtualstoa.net/2008/10/08/twenty-five-years-later/</A>CharlieMcMenaminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00942021756417667913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225795457407230638.post-29591408913245213012009-04-17T16:05:00.000+01:002009-04-17T16:05:00.000+01:00Charlie, I thought so, I was just teasing.
It is ...Charlie, I thought so, I was just teasing.<br /><br />It is interesting how the self-identification "social democrat" has become rehabilitated in left circles, as the memory that there ever was a traitorous thing called the SDP fades.<br /><br />I can't actually reference this off the cuff, but I think I remember that if you read the 1983 SDP manifesto it's quite surprising how left wing it readsStrategisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16519305659966338395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225795457407230638.post-26936547976487917382009-04-17T12:27:00.000+01:002009-04-17T12:27:00.000+01:00Hi Strategist,
I'm using 'social democratic' to me...Hi Strategist,<br />I'm using 'social democratic' to mean 'traditional Labour'. I see the old SDP of the 1980s as the direct ideological forerunner of New Labour.CharlieMcMenaminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00942021756417667913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225795457407230638.post-62706199872458970032009-04-17T12:05:00.000+01:002009-04-17T12:05:00.000+01:00"we lack a social democratic party"
But surely th..."we lack a social democratic party"<br /><br />But surely there are one or two hardline Rosie Barnes-ites hanging in there like the proverbial Japanese sniper, somewhere in South East London?<br /><br />...nope, it appears not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK,_1988)Strategistnoreply@blogger.com